“Flowers,” the dark British comedy premiering on the streaming service Seeso on Thursday, is the strangest TV concoction to vie for attention in years. It’s worth a peek just to see how bizarre scripted TV comedy is getting.

This isn’t oddball like “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” on Netflix or odd like the revamped “Odd Couple” on CBS. It’s weirder than those.

Opening with an unsuccessful suicide, narrated in verse, jumping to dreary dark drama, with assorted disconnected characters including an Asian stereotype popping up for no apparent reason, “Flowers” is more downbeat and genre defying than those more standard comedies. It seems to dare viewers to stick with it.

Seeso’s first original scripted comedy, written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Will Sharpe, is a head-scratcher. It does have Olivia Colman (“Broadchurch,” “The Night Manager”) going for it. Colman plays Deborah Flowers, a dotty woman in a seemingly loveless, open marriage.

Deborah is a music teacher; her husband Maurice (Julian Barratt) is the author of illustrated children’s books The Grubbs. They aren’t quite together, but haven’t managed to divorce. They have two maladjusted kids and Maurie’s nutty mom living with them. Deborah aims to keep the family together at all costs and becomes increasingly suspicious that Maurice is in a secret homosexual relationship with his Japanese illustrator Shun (played by show creator Sharpe).

If the rest of comedy is too ordinary for you, you might try “Flowers.”

Raul Martinez, weekend sports anchor for KDVR-Channel 31, finished his last “Sunday Sports Zone” on May 1 and said farewell to Denver. He’s moving on to bigger things, beginning with his next gig as main sports anchor for the “new” NBC station in Boston. That’s a jump from TV market No. 17 to No. 8, according to the Nielsen rankings.

“These four years went way too fast!” Martinez posted on Facebook. “Going to miss you, Colorado. You were good to me.”

Holly Gauntt, Vice President of News and Digital Content for KDVR-KWGN, said she plans to announce a replacement for Martinez later this week.

To clarify: The new NBC Boston grew out of NECN, New England Cable News, the regional cable network owned by Comcast/NBC Universal. NECN will continue to operate as its own separate cable news channel. Necn, Telemundo Boston and NBC Boston will be collocated in Newton, MA. NBC Boston will be its own standalone station launching in 2017, taking over the NBC affiliation in the market when the network’s longstanding contract with WHDH ends.

“I’m going to the new NBC. So kind of confusing,” Martinez said via email.

“Game of Thrones” turned uncharacteristically cheesy Sunday night. (Spoilers ahead if you’re not caught up on the Jon Snow saga.) Do you believe in magic?

There’s always been a certain degree of otherworldliness to the series. Now it’s time to worry: without the novels to rely on, will the writing veer further into supernatural tricks and away from dynastic and character drama?

We knew it was coming. Carice van Houten as Melisandre has demonstrated magical powers before, most recently revealing her aged self, taking off her magical necklace and crawling under the covers as an ancient crone. Now raising the dead!

The laugh lines about dragons from Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) are appreciated — until the magical beasts threaten to take over that storyline, too. A bit of digital special effects goes a long way. Similarly, a bit of White Walker shock appeal is plenty.

Magic is fine but building tension through forceful dramatic writing is better.

PBS’ “American Masters” on Tuesday presents a documentary on the too-short life of Janis Joplin, a talented, tortured artist. It has to be among the saddest “American Masters” presentations ever.

“Janis: Little Girl Blue” will air 7-9 p.m. Tuesday on Rocky Mountain PBS. The two-hour film from Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg (“Deliver Us From Evil,” “West of Memphis,” “Prophet’s Prey”) chronicles Janis’ bullying by schoolmates, her discovery of her vocal powers, her quest for fame and her ongoing apologies to her parents for being something other than what they expected.

The expected clips from the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock are here but so are some unexpected moments: Dick Cavett talking about their (perhaps intimate) relationship, Joplin’s sister Laura talking about their parents’ difficulty understanding this wild daughter, and Kris Kristofferson talking about the song that he wrote and she made famous, “Bobby McGee.” In a series of letters that begin “Dear Family,” Joplin expresses her hopes of making it big.

Larry Wilmore, host of “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” on Comedy Central, will do the honors at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, also known as Washington’s Nerd Prom, this weekend. The event will be telecast live on C-SPAN on Saturday, April 30, locally at 4 p.m.

Wilmore joins a long list of comics who’ve ribbed both politicians and the media at the function. Past hosts include Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Wanda Sykes.

Wilmore is aware of the significance of the task: “For me, part of the history of this is a bit overwhelming,” Wilmore told a C-SPAN interviewer. “When I think this is the first black president, we’re the same age. To see even where race has gone in our lifetime. When I was a kid the thought of a black man even leading a football team, being the quarterback was a huge deal let alone to be president.”

This last White House Correspondents Association Dinner of the Obama presidency arrives with ample material for political parody. Last year, when “Saturday Night Live’s” Cecily Strong was the entertainer, Obama himself scored some of the biggest laughs. (See his speech here.) He included digs at Ted Cruz, MSNBC, CNN and Donald Trump (“Donald Trump is here… still.”) Regarding the 2016 election, Obama said, “I, for one, can’t wait to see who the Koch brothers pick.” And in a zing aimed at Bernie Sanders, he seriously underestimated the appeal of the “pot smoking Socialist.”

Now that the election cycle is in full swing and the President is on his way out, there should be some even more stinging humor this round.

SeriesFest, billed as an annual episodic content festival in partnership with the Denver Film Society, will return to Denver on June 23-25.

For SeriesFest: Season 2, a two-day digital storytelling “hackathon” is planned to inspire “the next great interactive series.”

Last year’s inaugural event saw some 30 pilots featured over a four-day event in Denver. Organizers said the goal was “to bring industry executives and producers together with content creators to create a new marketplace for television.”

This year SeriesFest is partnering with media/tech company Interlude to launch the 48-Hour Interactive Series Jam (“Series Jam”). Interlude is involved with all sorts of interactive and digital media (it’s the company Nancy Tellum joined as executive chairman after many years at CBS).

The Series Jam will work this way, per the release:

Small teams of 3-5 filmmakers, game designers, developers, producers and writers may submit an application to enter the competition. SeriesFest and Interlude will choose up to 6 teams with these selected teams meeting on Thursday, June 23, 2016 in downtown Denver to begin the hackathon.

The teams will work closely with Interlude’s creative leadership to conceptualize an interactive three-part series and will learn how to get the most out of the responsiveness of the video, where to use it to optimize the emotional power and how to make a story compelling. Over the course of 48 hours, the teams will write, shoot, edit, and build their projects in Treehouse, Interlude’s intuitive and powerful authoring software, to develop a working proof-of-concept (“POC”). An experienced team of professionals will be there to guide participants along the way, and all production and post-production gear will be provided.

At the end of the Series Jam, the teams will present their projects in front of an audience accompanied by an outline of a three-episode arc. One winning team will be awarded $10,000 in production funds to create the series, which will premiere on Interlude’s platform Eko, a new home for interactive, serialized content.

The deadline for submissions is May 13. Series Jam is presented in partnership with the University of Colorado Denver College of Arts & Media.

The Colorado Music Hall of Fame, based in Morrison at the Trading Post at Red Rocks Ampitheatre, is ready for its closeup. It’s a rerun, but happening today on AXS TV, part of the Anschutz Entertainment Group.

April 26 at 1 p.m., AXS TV will repeat its broadcast of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s “Class of 2014” celebration. Highlights include a gathering of the original members of Firefall; the assemblage of Poco’s classic Colorado lineup with Timothy B. Schmit returning from the Eagles; Jimmy Ibbotson’s reunion with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band; and a tribute to Manassas featuring Nathaniel Rateliff.

AXS TV can be found on the following channels:
#664 on Xfinity/Comcast, #167 on DISH Network, #340 on DIRECTV, #569 on Verizon FiOS

Megyn Kelly will interview Donald Trump on May 17 as a Fox special, “Megyn Kelly Presents.” This will be the broadcaster’s first sit-down interview with the GOP frontrunner since the August 2015 presidential debate sparked a highly publicized feud between them.

Trump’s “blood” comments came after the Fox News anchor asked him about the misogynistic and sexist comments he made in the past, such as calling some women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.”

Per the Fox release:

For the first time ever, Kelly will explore how events unfolded with Trump after the August debate as one of the most prominent voices covering the 2016 presidential campaign of the frontrunner. She will also examine Trump’s successful campaign for the White House to date and his role in one of the most historic presidential runs in modern times.

In commenting on the interview, Kelly said, “Mr. Trump and I sat down together for a meeting earlier this month at my request. He was gracious with his time and I asked him to consider an interview. I am happy to announce he has agreed, and I look forward to a fascinating exchange — our first sit-down interview together in nearly a year.”

Does this mean their much-publicized feud is over? Apparently the quest for ratings (for her and the network) and exposure (for him) override any earlier animosity. “The first debate on August 6, 2015, which involved her exchange with Trump, delivered 24 million viewers, making it the highest-rated non-sports cable telecast of all time,” Fox notes. That’s big enough to support the Fox News anchor’s jump to primetime on the entertainment network.

“VEEP” returns for a fifth season on HBO Sunday and just in time. Given the real-life campaign headlines, we deserve it.

The problem with political satire during the 2016 election cycle is obvious: how do you top the real thing? With Donald Trump providing more jaw-dropping quotes per hour than late-night TV hosts can parody, what’s left for TV comedy writers?

Thankfully, there’s President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her quest to be rightfully elected. Where the ridiculous narcissist accidentally fell into the Oval Office in 2014, now she must try to win an election on her own. As the season opens, the country is deeply divided, the election has resulted in a tie and a tense recount is set to ensue.

Meyer’s self-interested and variously incompetent staffers do their parts, lying, spinning, bag-holding and expressing disdain for “the people,” all while stroking the boss’ fragile ego.

The series has already won the Emmy for best comedy. Going forward there should be a new award for best comedy duo, with Dreyfus and Tony Hale (her “bag man”) running away with the honor. They are laugh-out-loud funny in throwaway moments. This season Hugh Laurie, Martin Mull and John Slattery show up to add to the deeply cynical fun. There are even romantic sparks for POTUS… (no spoilers). Creator Armando Iannucci left the show last season, handing off to David Mandel (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”). Judging by the first four episodes, it hasn’t skipped a beat.

Note HBO is offering free previews this weekend on Comcast. It’s never too late to binge.

With the entry of KDVR-Channel 31 into the 11 a.m. local news contest, the competition for tenths of a rating point is heating up.

In its first week, marked by big weather news during a spring storm, the Fox31 midday newscast narrowly beat KCNC-Channel 4, KMGH-Channel 7 and KTVD-Channel 20 in the key news demographics. (KUSA-Channel 9 carries the NBC “Today” telecast at 11 a.m., switching to a local newscast at noon.)

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.